How to Use regionalize in a Sentence

regionalize

verb
  • Forty percent plan to near-shore their supply base, and 38 percent plan to regionalize it.
    — Katy George, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Spellacy said Mills had no role in the decision to regionalize the jail.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2021
  • That means, in a very real sense, the decision to regionalize via an ISO is a one-way street.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 23 Aug. 2018
  • It may be regionalized now, but the fame afforded to Clyne from that song never left him in southern Arizona.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • With the city in dire straits, Christie and state Democratic lawmakers pushed to regionalize its police force.
    — NBC News, 22 June 2020
  • The county sought to regionalize the jail in an effort to make money by charging Cleveland and its suburbs for housing their inmates.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
  • This is about perception, momentum and connecting with and regionalizing a fan base.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Records from that time portrayed him as someone who threw around his political clout to protect Mills after ordering him to regionalize the jail and potentially make money.
    — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The 1996 bill that prompted the crisis also included plans to regionalize the state power grid, but that part of the deregulation effort was abandoned in the wake of the blackouts and inflated energy costs.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 June 2018
  • This year, China’s government implemented measures to regionalize the country’s pork industry, splitting the country into five zones, with each region responsible for producing the pigs consumed in their zone.
    — Fortune, 3 July 2021
  • Emails that prosecutors presented during the trial also showed that Mills used his efforts to regionalize the jail to apply for the county’s director of public safety position in late 2017.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Starting in the nineteen-tens, with his acquisition of a string of Long Island casinos, and continuing into the twenties, Rothstein was the first to regionalize—and then nationalize—the layoff.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Cory Shaffer reports the filing marks the most extensive disclosure yet of the case investigators have built against Mills, whom Budish tapped in 2015 to oversee the county’s plan to regionalize the jail.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 16 June 2020
  • The suspension of operations comes after the Budish administration in January closed down its other satellite jail facility in Euclid, both acquired as part of plans to regionalize the county jails.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Democrats in these states are now relishing the opportunity to play the party of low taxes on suburban, single-digit millionaires — while also seizing the chance to regionalize national political dynamics that favor Team Blue.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Amazon challenged that assumption by proving consumers valued faster delivery enough to justify placing inventory in more locations, before ultimately regionalizing its fulfillment network.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
  • The push to regionalize the electric grid, first proposed as part of the unsuccessful 1990s deregulation effort and withdrawn as recently as last year, was inserted into existing legislation late Friday.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The bill is backed by a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers representing towns in the Litchfield Hills, who described the NRRA as part of a broader effort to regionalize public services that has proven popular and cost-effective for residents.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026

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